The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they—and she—will come to both revere and fear.

The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy’s weak link.

Lilith’s story overflows with high drama and heartbreak, and life on the plantation is rife with dangerous secrets, unspoken jealousies, inhuman violence, and very human emotion—between slave and master, between slave and overseer, and among the slaves themselves. Lilith finds herself at the heart of it all. And all of it told in one of the boldest literary voices to grace the page recently—and the secret of that voice is one of the book’s most intriguing mysteries. – Amazon.com

Filled with up-to-the-minute facts, figures, and commentary, We The Media features over 100 of the leading journalists, media critics, and experts in the country on: who owns and controls the media; how the rapidly expanding empires of Disney, Time Warner, Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp, and other media conglomerates affect what you see, hear and read; how political considerations and the radical right influence what gets on the air and who gets left out of the picture; and how advertising pervades virtually every second of your life. We the Media also highlights the alternatives – organizations, leaders, and the media makers who are successfully fighting the conglomerates and demanding that media and democracy go together. Our media system has been transformed and our lives will be changed in ways we don’t even know yet. But we can do something about it. We the Media is a survival guide to navigating the brave new media landscape.

Langston Hughes a celebrated American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist.  In 1923, Hughes traveled abroad on a freighter to the Senegal, Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo, Angola, and Guinea in Africa, and later to Italy and France, Russia and Spain. One of his favorite pastimes whether abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and writing poetry. The poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in 1967 and represent work from his entire career, including “The negro speaks of Rivers,” “The Weary Blues,” and many more. Enjoy!

Passionate Minds is a series exploring the biographies and literary achievements of 12 modern women. The book is divided in to three sections. The first sections deals with sexual freedom in essays on Olive Schreiner, Gertrude Stein, Anais Nin, and famed Hollywood actress Mae West.  The second section examines race in the American south by writers such as Margaret Mitchell, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty. The third focuses on politics and the interpretation of Nazis germany and soviet communism including the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, Ayn Rand, Doris Lesssin and a dual essay by Hannah Arendt and Mary Mcarthy.